{"id":19922,"date":"2023-07-05T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?page_id=19922"},"modified":"2024-09-21T23:27:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T06:27:46","slug":"a-specific-dying-wish-chain-letter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/hodgepodge\/nonfiction\/chain-letters-and-forwarding-mail\/a-specific-dying-wish-chain-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"A specific dying-wish chain letter"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"pub-history-dates\">(This page created 8 December 1996.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>The Craig Shergold UL and chain letters have combined to create an interesting mutant offspring:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<pre style=\"overflow-x: auto;\">\r\nFrom: Parkin@MayoHospital.health.com\r\nSubject: My dying wish\r\n\r\nMy name is Anthony Parkin, and you don't know me. I'm 7 years old, and\r\nI have lukemea. I found your name using gopher, and I would like for\r\nyou to carry out my dying wish of starting a chain letter. Please send\r\nthis letter to five people you know so I can live forever. \r\n<\/pre>\r\n\r\n<p>A Mayo spokesperson tells me: \u201cThere has not been a patient at Mayo named Anthony Parkin. There is no such e-mail address associated in any way with Mayo Foundation.\u201d Needless to say, if you receive the above item you should not forward it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":19920,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19922","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20604,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19922\/revisions\/20604"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}